Read the paragraph. then answer the question that follows.

the uss alabama, built in 1942, is a monster weighing in at 35,000 tons. the ship was built during the second world war and spent 40 months actively assisting the war effort in the pacific ocean. during that time, she was in 26 battles. in 1964, the ship moved to her present home in mobile, alabama.

what type of text connection is in this paragraph and how do you know?

1. an analogy, because the uss alabama is to a monster as a battle is to war

2. an analogy, because the uss alabama is noted as being as big as a monster

3. a comparison, because the uss alabama is to a monster as a battle is to war

4. a comparison, because the uss alabama is noted as being as big as a monster

Third-person omniscient narrators are likely to be reliable because they're impersonal and know everything about the story they don't care enough about the characters to lie none of the above both "a" and "b"

Read the excerpt from twelfth night, by william shakespeare. if music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts? the noise is jarring. the noise is soothing. the sounds are fading. the sounds are too loud. mark this and return

In descriptive writing, the conclusion should introduce a new idea return the discussion to the general level use a quotation explain why the essay was effective